TV highlights 15/03/2012

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Petrol Age 8pm, Sky Atlantic

With his first week's wages from Withnail & I, Paul McGann bought a Rover P5B, a car that he'd been in love with since school. Some 26 years later he's still driving it, so as presenters go he's less Clarkson and more Tiff Needell. In a reverent look at the history of British motoring, McGann discovers some of the less-known pioneers of speed in Britain. Made up of assorted egotists and a handful of borderline maniacs, this reckless bunch risk life and limb for what Aldous Huxley called "the one genuinely modern pleasure". Ben Arnold

MasterChef 9pm, BBC1

After winnowing out 21 hopefuls and taking in some truly stomach-churning cuisine – cockroaches in fish sauce, anyone? – Messrs Torode and Wallace are finally ready to determine the winner of MasterChef 2012. In comparison with some of the fiendish tasks of previous rounds, this assignment is relatively straightforward, with the three finalists preparing a three-course meal for their hosts. That said, macaroni and cheese simply won't cut it tonight. Gwilym Mumford

Love Life 9pm, ITV1

When Lucy (Andrea Lowe) starts getting serious with Joe (Rob James-Collier) it precipitates his dash to the Himalayas; and when he returns, a year later, everything's changed. Lucy's now got a pronounced baby bulge and won't tell Joe who the father is – but can a rekindled romance be on the cards? Not so terrible, as these things go, although the leads are rather outshone by the supporting players, Alexander Armstrong and the peerless Gregor Fisher. Ali Catterall

Mary's Bottom Line 9pm, Channel 4

Mary Portas disapproves of cheap, foreign-made clothes, so she's bringing manufacturing back to Britain. In Middleton, a textile mill graveyard town near Manchester, she reclaims a derelict factory and gets it working again. Her eight apprentices will be making knickers. Portas's good intentions are horribly thwarted by the style of programme-making, in particular the interview she has with a potential apprentice is excruciating as she talks about his "tragic" life on the dole while he just sits there and she tries to muster anything other than pity. She can't. Julia Raeside

The Hidden Art Of Islam 9pm, BBC4

Rageh Omaar visits the British Museum's current exhibition on the Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca that every observant Muslim is supposed to make at least once. Islamic art has been circumscribed to varying degrees by the fluctuating rigour with which Islamic laws have been interpreted: there have been periods in which everyone was more relaxed about representations of the prophet Mohammed than they presently are. Despite this unpredictable hazard, Islam has a rich tradition of figurative art, to which Omaar is a thoughtful guide. Andrew Mueller

Eastbound & Down 10pm, FX

This season, unreconstructed jock and former baseball star Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) has relocated to Myrtle Beach. Here, he's pitching in the minor leagues, engaging in locker-room chat with likeminded buddy Shane to the bemusement of younger teammates, as well as banging college girls and trying to surf. The appeal of Eastbound is apparently in Powers's unapologetic espousal of pre-metrosexual, pre-PC, pre-latterday temperance-era attitudes; you just feel he gets cut a little too much slack by the supporting characters. David Stubbs